The Paris Review
Idle Bird
June 10, 2015 | by Nellie Hermann
Van Gogh finds art in the Borinage.
Vincent van Gogh, Coalmine in the Borinage, 1879.
In October of 1879, Theo van Gogh went to visit his brother, Vincent, in the Borinage coal-mining district of Belgium. Theo was en route to Paris, where he had business to conduct as an art dealer; Vincent was doing self-appointed missionary work. The pair walked along an abandoned quarry that reminded them of a canal they’d... [Lire la suite]